COPY OF LETTER FROM THE HON. W. FOX TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUL AT DUNEDIN, REPRESENTING THE ADVANTAGES THAT WOULD FOLLOW IF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WOOL WERE ADMITTED INTO THE UNITED STATES FREE OF DUTY.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1870 Session I, D-02

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COPY OF LETTER FROM THE HON. W. FOX TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUL AT DUNEDIN, REPRESENTING THE ADVANTAGES THAT WOULD FOLLOW IF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WOOL WERE ADMITTED INTO THE UNITED STATES FREE OF DUTY.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BY COMMAND OE HIS EXCELLENCY. WELLINGTON. 1870.

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No. 1. Copy of a Letter from the Hon. W. Fox to Mr. H. Deiyeb. Government Buildings, Wellington, N.Z., Sin _ 19tli March, 1870. As the first steamer which is to place in regular monthly communication New Zealand with the United States, is to start on its voyage a few days hence, perhaps you will be good enough to communicate to your Government the high appreciation, by the Government of New Zealand, of this close intercourse with the great and powerful country of which you are the representative, and of their earnest desire for its continuance. The Government believe that the Colonists of New Zealand welcome in this line, not only a means of mail communication with Great Britain, but the commencement of what they hope will prove friendly relations, and, to both sides, profitable commercial connection, with the people of the United States. The Government will be glad to learn that, under the circumstances, your Government will in future be willing to allow the Government of this country to communicate with them direct in matters affecting the relations between the two countries. It has for some time been the intention of this Government, in concert with the_ Governments of some of the neighbouring Colonies, to represent to your Government their earnest desire that a market should be opened in the United kStates to the wool, which is one of the largest articles of production of the Australasian Colonies. There are circumstances which it is felt should render the subject one which your Government may entertain, irrespectively of the question whether or not it is deemed that immediate pecuniary profit will arise from it. The Colonies are peopled by a race speaking the same language and acknowledging many of the same traditions and associations which belong to the people of tfie United States. For a long time to come the Colonies will manufacture to a very limited extent even for home use. They will use a great many of the manufactures and products of the United States, but it is not probable they wili be able to supply manufactures in exchange. They cannot therefore prejudice, but must benefit, the manufacturers of the United States. The wool the Colonists are able to send will assist those manufactories, and tho wool ships will return laden with the wares and products of your country. The nature and quality of the wool are not, it is supposed, such as will injuriously affect the value of the wool produced in your country. At present the wool of these Colonies is sent to but one market, and from that market a great deal of it finds its way to the United States, as will be seen from the Statistics appended to this letter, which have been compiled in the Customs Department here, from official sources. It is submitted that it is equally a loss to the United States and to the Colonies, that there should be double shipping expenses, and unnecessary loss in the time of transit, on wool produced in these Colonies and used in America. If the wool of Australia and New Zealand were admitted free to American Ports, the United States as a market for wool, for the supply of other countries as well as for its own use, would bo second to none. The United States would reap the threefold advantage of being a leading market for wool, of obtaining wool at the lowest possible cost, and of obtaining it, moreover, in such quantities as would give a great impetus to their worsted and woollen manufactories, and of opening up a trade with countries which would not enter into manufacturing rivalry with it, but consume its products and manufactures. The United States with an adequate supply of wool would become, if not the largest, one of tho largest woollen and worsted manufacturing countries in the world ; but its progress in this direction must be limited if countries which produce so much wool are condemned to seek a market elsewhere, and the wool obtained from them be loaded with the charges of a circuitous and costly transit. It may be argued that the wool might oven now be sent direct, but a moment's consideration will show that, whilst there is a heavy duty on it, wool sent to America has not the opportunity of finding a world-wide market which otherwise it would find if it were not burdened with charges of that kind, and if it were as available for sale for the use of other countries as it is in the market of Great Britain. I have dwelt on what I conceive would be the American view of the question, because, on the part of the Colonies, it is only necessary to express my belief that they are fully aware of the great advantage they would gain in acquiring for their wool so vast a market as that of the United States, as also of the benefits they would gain from the large commercial interchange in other articles which would necessarily follow. I append statement of the wool exported from the Australasian Colonies, from which statement, and from the others sent herewith, you will observe that the wool production of these Colonies is very l arg e_that in 1868 Great Britain imported altogether 250,928,854 lbs. of wool, valued at £14,873,623, 62 per cent, of which was from Australia and New Zealand ; that Great Britain receives annually an immense quantity of wool merely to re-ship it to other countries, and that a not inconsiderable portion of this finds its way to the United States. In conclusion permit me to express the hope that the subject of this letter will meet the favourable consideration of your Government. 11. Driver, Esq., M.H.8., I have, &c, United States Consular Agent, &c, Dunedin. W. Box, Premier.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE HON. MR. FOX TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUL, DUNEDIN.

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DECENNIAL RETURN of the Quantity and Value of WOOL EXPORTED from the under-mentioned Colonies.

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TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUL, DUNEDIN.

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RETURN containing particulars of the IMPORTATION and EXPORTATION of WOOL into and from the United Kingdom during the years 1864 to 1868, compiled from "The Annual Statistics of the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions in the year 1868."

RETURN of WOOL IMPORTED into the United Kingdom in the year 1868, and showing Countries whence Imported.

Totals. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. 1864 to 1868. ?otal quantity and computed" real value of Wool (including Alpaca, Llama, and Vicuna Wool) imported into the United Kingdom during the years 1864 to 1868 'otal quantity and computed" real value of Foreign and Colonial Wool (including Alpaca and Llama Wool) exported from the "United Kingdom during the years 1864 to 1868 e Quantity and computed real" value of Wool imported into the United Kingdom from United States from 1864 to 1868. , Quantity and declared real" value of Wool, the produce of the United Kingdom, exported to United States from 1864 to 1868 _ Quantity and computed reaF value of Wool of Foreign and Colonial produce exported from the United Kingdom to the United States from 1864 to 1868 „ lbs. 206,473,045 Value £15,503,483 lbs. 55,933,803 Value £4,379,578 lbs. 891,741 Value £63,283 lbs. 212,206,747 Value £14,930,430 lbs. 82,444,930 Value £5,889,082 lbs. 45,352 Value £3,050 lbs. 239,358,689 Value 17,550,871 lbs. 66,573,488 Value £5,017,282 lbs. 1,256,023 Value £88,967 lbs. 233,703,184 Value £16,178,034 lbs. 90,832,584 Value £6,408,508 lbs. 655,945 Value £39,437 lbs. *252,744,115 Value £15,120,498 lbs. 105,070,311 Value £6,438,243 lbs. 826,707 Value £51,227 lbs. 1,198,485,821 Value £79,283,311 lbs. 400,860,111 Value £28,132,691 lbs. 3,675,76! Value £245,96lbs. 203,554 Value £16,300 lbs. 352,232 Value £31,410 lbs. 180,640 Value £13,700 lbs. 15,142 Value £1,484 lbs. 859,302 Value £41,190 lbs. 1,610,871 Value £104,08lbs. 4,210,956 Value £285,380 lbs. 7,344,265 Value £459,322 lbs. 4,519,704 Value £289,723 lbs. 3,941,353 Value £210,293 lbs. 4,286,583 Value £190,874 lbs. 24,302,86: Value £1,435,59: * This includes 1,815,301 lbs. of Alpaca, Llama, and Vicuna Wool, of the value of £246,875.

Countries whence Imported. Quantity Imported. Computed real Value. Average Trice eixed eoe the Value. fooi —Sheep and Lambs. Russia Denmark and Iceland ... Prussia Hamburg Bremen Holland Belgium France Portugal Spain Italy—Naples Venetia Illyria, Croatia, and Dalmatia ... Greece Ionian Islands Turkey Proper Syria and Palestine Egypt Morocco United States —Worth Atlantic Ports Ports on the Pacific lbs. 8,272,641 1,965,937 270,353 4,794,263 747,195 556,790 716,146 1,019,447 1,049,521 663,095 79,620 41,044 289,536 2,436 117,213 1,331,138 54,041 2,524,670 1,349,930 825,057 1,650 72,124 2,805,966 806,336 961,015 3,608,399 4,759,809 290,114 313,637 35,993,572 17,567,805 34,637 155,745,199 388,373 197,669 112,476 £ 311,547 75,514 18,377 335,559 53,443 30,825 43,773 73,620 76,434 40,019 2,964 1,606 11,136 70 3,348 42,161 1,594 114,878 47,469 51,151 76 2,664 128,082 20,109 23,330 92,141 124,827 10,804 11,057 2,187,745 558,878 1,118 10,345,308 22,517 5,765 3,714 per lb. s. d. 0 9 0 9i 1 4f 1 4|. 1 5 tV 1 IfV 1 2|i 1 5-i 0 11| 1 2i 0 8+1 0 9* 0 9i 0 6| 0 6} 0 7t o 71 0 10if 0 8 T V 1 2J 0 11 0 8! 0 11 0 6 0 5J 0 6| 0 6i 0 8iA 0 8i 1 2f 0 71 0 7| i *u i H 0 7 0 7J New G-ranada Peru Chili Brazil Uruguay Argentine Confederation Gibraltar St. Helena British Possessions in South Africa British India —Bombay and Sinde Bengal and Pegu Australia British North America... Falkland Islands Other Parts Total 250,928,854 14,873,623 This Keturn is extracted from " The Annual Statement of ' 'orcign Countries and British Possessions in the year 1868," p; 'rade. ;he Trade and Na1 ■spared by the St! 'igation of the United Kingdom with itistical Department of the Board of